Science-Driven Societal Transformation, Part I: Worldview Science-Driven Societal Transformation, Part II: Motivation and Strategy Science-Driven Societal Transformation, Part III: Design

there we go hello and welcome everyone it is tuesday april 6 2021. and it is active inference livestream uh series that we're going to be kicking off with john boykier this is going to be really interesting because we're going to have three discussions with john and i and interactive jam boards for people who are working with us live or asynchronously and then we're going to be having two group discussions later so it's going to be a really interesting look through a really rich world view and hopefully a paradigm that we can be starting to think about enacting or learning more about what it might look like in reality so let's just get right into this interesting set of topics i'm daniel and i'm a postdoc in california and i'll pass it to john just to introduce himself and this series thanks for coming on john thank you daniel i appreciate it i'm happy to be here with you actually um so we're going to talk in this series about a series of papers that i just published in the in the journal sustainability that that series is titled science driven societal transformation and uh it covers a lot of material all three papers are kind of lengthy so that's one of the reasons that we wanted to kind of have some time together talk out loud and cover some of the some of the main points i am a data science by training just as a little background actually phd and and cancer biology essentially and uh uh also i'm a courtesy faculty at oregon state university so these pape this series of papers is published under uh my affiliation with osu and uh they just came out this this last uh at the end of last year and this this spring so all right so uh i think the jamboard has links i won't bother to give the links to them there's also a little short survey a short summary paper uh in sciencex that the link is there so you can also check that out and uh i would like to say that for for additional information you can go to the project web page which is brunch principled societies project dot org and there you would find links for all the papers and and a bunch of other material also a uh a a live simulation model you could play with too so john let me just ask about the three paper format because like three first author papers in sequence it's kind of a uh there has to be a story there so just the story is the story is i'm verbose no there's there's more to it than that uh you know um i i i had some ideas in mind i mean i i mean obviously that's what the series is about but i had some ideas in mind of of what transformation might look like and how we might get there but the but i think the ideas are relative are fairly unusual and i i didn't want to just put them in a short paper because without background i think that the ideas could have been easily misinterpreted or misunderstood so i i felt it necessary to explain the background in more detail about what what the proposal actually is and what the concept is it's a it's a the the whole series as a whole is kind of a proposal for an r d project science driven r d project aimed at societal transformation but it's a little bit more than that actually it's it's a it's a it's a way to think about transformation a way to a context for how we might go about uh societal transformation and what that looks like and why we would even want to bother with the concept in the first place so uh so it just was too much to fit in one paper and i i had originally written it and one put it all in one paper and then i could see that wasn't going to work out it was going to be way it's way too long so i split it up and uh i'm very happy that the journal sustainability was willing to publish this they were quite interested so uh so that all worked out really quite well and maybe i should say too this work represents about 10 years of my efforts this is kind of the in a sense the culmination of 10 years of my thinking on this topic cool really interesting and i'm sure we'll hear more about some of those threads so just…